Picture and curtain hanger.



No. 881,066. PATBNTED SEPT. 18, 1906.

' I E. J. HAWKS.

PICTURE AND CURTAIN HANGER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 29, 1906.

WITNESSES A [NVENT'OR I y I I v I r I A TTOR/VE Y5 TE STATES PATENTOFFICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented sept. 18, 1906.

Application filed June 29, 1906. Serial No. 324,097.

To [LZZ/ whom, it may concern:

.Be it knownthat I, EDITH J. HAwKs, a citizen of the United States,residing at Colorado Springs, in the county of El Paso and State ofColorado, have invented a new and useful Picture and Curtain Hanger, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to picture and cmtain hangers.

.The object of the invention is to provide a simple and improved devicewhich is adapted to be inexpensively constructed from sheet metal andwhich is also adapted to be used in hanging pictures or curtains as wellas in applying picture-hooks to the molding v of walls.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, which will appear as thedescription proceeds, the invention resides in the combination andarrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafterdescribed and claimed, it being understood that changes in the preciseembodiment of invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope ofthe following claims without departing from the spirit of the inventionor sacrificing any of its advantages.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure1 is a perspective view of the improved device, showing a picture-wireand a picture-hook engaged therewith. Fig. 2 is a view in elev ationshowing the body portion reversed on the handle, so as to adapt thedevice for use as a support for a curtain-pole. Fig. 3 is an enlargeddetailed view showing the upper end of the handle. Fig. 41 is a detaillongitudinal section in the plane of the clip.

Like reference characters indicate corre sponding parts in the differentfigures of the drawings.

The improved picture and curtain hanger of this invention, generallyspeaking, comprises a handle A and a head or flat body portion B. Thebody portion B, for the sake of economy, is constructed, preferably, ofsheet metal and is usually formed with a relatively wide end 1 and arelatively narrow end 2. Formed inte ral with the relatively narrow end2 of the body portion B, at the opposite ends thereof, is a pair ofapproximately semicircular picture-fingers 3, which are adapted toreceive the picture wire or cord, so as to support the same in theoperation of hanging a picture. As shown in. the drawings, thepicture-fingers 3 preferably are produced by stamping the sheet-metalbody portion B with a pair of parallel projections or arms, which arebent first downward and then outward and upward in a semicircularmanner, as illustrated. It will be understood that the picture-fingers 3are employed for hanging a picture on a hook or nail which has beenalready applied or driven into the wall.

In the event that it is-necessary first to suspend a picture-hook fromthe molding and then suspend a picture from the hook the device of thepresent invention can be employed for this purpose by fitting thepicture-hook 5 over the upper end of the body portion B, as shown, sothat the portion of the hook which is to engage the molding is disposedon the side of the body portion B opposite the picture-fingers 3, sothat when the hook 5 is engaged with the molding and the body portion isdrawn downward the hook will remain suspended in engagement with themolding. After applying the hook 5 to the upper edge of the body portionB it is preferable to fit the picture-wire 6 over the picture-fingers 3,so that it will contact with one portion of the picture-hook 5 and holdthe same securely in position on the portion B, it being understood thatthe picture-wire 6 on account of the weight of the picture as well as onaccount of its engagement with the hook 5 will serve to hold said hooksecurelyin position and will also engage the lower end of the hook 5when the body portion B is drawn downward.

At its lower or relatively wide end 1 the body portion B is formed witha pair of widely-separated integral curtain fingers or hooks 10, whichopen downward, as shown. As will be apparent, the curtain-fingers 10extend in the opposite direction from the picture-fingers 3.

It is desirable to secure the body portion B to the handle A in suchmanner that it can be readily reversed whenever desired. The preferredmeans for reversible connecting the body portion B with the handle Aconsists of a pair of open-ended slots 11 12, formed in the upper andlower ends of the body portion B, and an open-ended slot 13, whichis'formed in the handle A and intersects the upper end thereof, asshown. The handle A is provided with a pair of pins 1 1, which extendthrough the slots 13. As will be readily apparent, either the upper orthe lower end of the body portion B can be fitted into the slot 13 ofthe handle A, so that the slot 11 or 12 in the body portion willstraddle the pins 14. When the body portion B is fitted into the handleA so that its relatively wide end 1 is at the upper end thereof, acurtain-pole can be engaged with or fitted into the curtainfingers l0,and thus raised into position to be held by the ordinarycurtain-brackets. When it is desired to hang a picture, it is onlynecessary to reverse the body portion B1 upon the handle A, so as todispose the picture-fingers 3 at the upper end thereof.

By reason of the fact that the body portion B is adapted to be stampedfrom a single piece of sheet metal and then readily bent to form thepicture-fingers 3 and curtainfingers '10 it will be obvious that theentire device can be manufactured at very small expense, especially inview of the fact that the handle A is quite inexpensive in construction.

As shown in the drawings, the picturefingers 3 preferably are not onlyplaced at the opposite end of the body portion B from thecurtain-receiving fingers 10, but also on the opposite side of said bodyportion, for which reason the curtain recei'vin fingers 10 do notinterfere'with the action 0 the pic ture-receiving fingers 3, and viceversa.

In hanging a picture with the improved device of this invention it ispreferable that the picture bedisposed on the outside of the handle A,so that said handle will serve to hold it away from the wall, and thusprevent any marring of either the wall or the picture.

It will be understood that when a picturehook is being suspended fromthe molding of a room the body ortion B will be turned so that thepicturegers 3 Will be on the side of the body portion away from the walland that when a picture is being suspended from a nail or hook which isalready secured in position the picture-fingers 3 will be turned 1toward the wall.

What is claimed is 1; A picture and curtain hanger comprising a flatmetal body portion having curtain and picture fingers.

2. A picture and curtain hanger compriswardly and downwardly'extendingpicture and curtain fingers.

6. A picture and curtain hanger .com'pris; ing a handle, a body portionreversibly connected therewith, and oppositely-extending picture andcurtain fingers on the upper. and lower ends of said body portion. i

7. A picture and curtain hanger compris ing a handle having a slotintersecting its upper end and a plurality of pins extending throughsaid slot, a sheet-metal body portion having a relatively wide end and arelatively narrow end, said body portion having a plu rality ofpicture-fingers formed integral with the narrow end thereof, a pluralityof curtain-fingers formed integral with the relatively wide end thereof,and a pair of oppositely-extending open-ended slots in the opposite endsof said body portion.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto afiiXedmy signature in the presence of two witnesses.

MABEL C. BARLOW, F. WALTER BARLOW

